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Warnings Made About Risky Climate Feedback Loops

A new study reported by a global team of scientists, along with researchers from Oregon State University (OSU), warns of several risky climate feedback loops and the requirement for action in research as well as policy.

20 Feb 2023

An Analysis of a Marine Heatwave Event and Its Triggers

A research group headed by Prof. Baoshu Yin from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS) accredited the record-breaking marine heatwave (MHW) event to the atmospheric weather pattern, global warming, and El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO).

20 Feb 2023

FuelPositive Initiates System Testing of Its On-Farm, Containerized Green Ammonia Production System

FuelPositive Corporation initiated system testing of its on-farm, containerized Green Ammonia production system to test its resilience to extreme outdoor weather conditions in anticipation of deployment in Manitoba, Canada.

20 Feb 2023

Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: A Potential Analog of Current Global Warming

56 million years ago, the Earth experienced one of the largest and most rapid climate warming events in its history: the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), which has similarities to current and future warming.

20 Feb 2023

"Plant Trees – Get Mushrooms" Strategy for Sustainable Forest Restoration

Lecturers of the Faculty of Science, and the Center of Learning Network for Region (CLNR) Chulalongkorn University successfully planted trees in the forests in Nan and Saraburi provinces through innovative seedlings with ectomycorrhiza fungi, motivating villagers and farmers to "plant trees and get mushrooms", for extra income.

20 Feb 2023

Heavy Industry in Australia Could Decarbonise, Help Limit Warming to 1.5 degrees and Create Up to 1.35 million Jobs: New Report Outlines Pathways

A new report has, for the first time in Australia, outlined decarbonisation pathways that show it is possible for five of Australia's most significant heavy industry supply chains to transition to net zero, consistent with global efforts to limit warming to 1.5 ºC.

20 Feb 2023

Devondale Launches Its First Renewables Hub

Electrical wholesaler Devondale is delighted to have launched the company’s first renewables hub at its Glastonbury branch.

20 Feb 2023

Scientists Develop More Sustainable Water Disinfection Method

For public health, having safe drinking water is important. However, conventional ways of disinfection lead to their own environmental issues. Although chlorine is low-cost and simple to use in centralized water systems, it comes at the cost of toxic chemical byproducts.

17 Feb 2023

New Method for Efficient Removal of Greenhouse Gas from Seawater

As carbon dioxide continues to build up in the Earth's atmosphere, research teams around the world have spent years seeking ways to remove the gas efficiently from the air.

17 Feb 2023

American West’s Water Future Hinges on the Future of Precipitation

An ongoing water crisis in the West has seven states struggling to agree on how to divide water from the Colorado River, leaving the federal government to forge a plan that will likely lead to litigation.

17 Feb 2023

First Spatial Field Reconstruction of European Summer Hydroclimate Based on Tree-Ring Isotopes

The 2015–2018 summer droughts have been exceptional in large parts of Western and Central Europe over the last 400 years, in terms of the magnitude of drought conditions. This indicates an influence of man-made global warming.

17 Feb 2023

Harnessing Combustion to Yield Materials Critical for Manufacturing Better Batteries

For more than a century, much of the world has run on the combustion of fossil fuels. Now, to avert the threat of climate change, the energy system is changing.

17 Feb 2023

Clean Maritime Funding Secured by Windship Technology

Windship Technology has been awarded £4m as part of a consortium in the latest round of the UK’s Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition (CMDC). The project is a demonstration of a symbiotic wind propulsion and carbon capture system, aimed at making a zero-emissions shipping industry a reality.

17 Feb 2023

New Review Revisits the Holocene Global Temperature Conundrum

Accurate climate models play a critical role in climate science and policy, helping to inform policy- and decision-makers throughout the world as they consider ways to slow the deadly effects of a warming planet and to adapt to changes already in progress.

16 Feb 2023

Rapid Upward Shifts in North American Mountain Vegetation Due to Warming Climate

In mountainous western North America, vegetation cover has moved upward at a rapid rate over the past several decades, according to a study published in PLOS Climate by James R. Keller at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States and colleagues.

16 Feb 2023